System and Method for Verifying and Revoking Ownership Rights with Respect to a Website in a Website Indexing System

1. A computer-implemented method for managing indexing for a website, the method comprising: storing owners-information associated with a plurality of currently verified owners of the website; indexing one or more documents in the website in accordance with indexing information received from one or more of the plurality of currently verified owners of the website so as to produce an inverse document index; providing to a respective one of the plurality of currently verified owners at least a portion of the owners-information; and in response to a request from the respective one of the plurality of currently verified owners, re-verifying the plurality of currently verified owners of the website.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein re-verifying comprises attempting to access the website for verification data associated with the plurality of currently verified owners of the website.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the verification data associated with a respective currently verified owner of the website comprises data selected from the group comprising a verification file stored in the website and a verification meta-tag stored in a document that is stored in the website.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the verification data associated with a respective currently verified owner of the website comprises data selected from the group comprising an owner-specific verification file stored in the website and an owner-specific meta-tag stored in a document that is stored in the website.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein re-verifying further comprises invalidating owner accounts for which the verification data is absent.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , further comprising periodically checking for existence of the verification data of the plurality of currently verified owners of the website.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , further comprising invalidating owner accounts for which the verification data is absent.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising providing verification data to an owner of the website for inclusion on the website, when the owner registers the website for indexing.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising enabling the respective one of the plurality of currently verified owners to remove outdated verification data from the at least a portion of the owners-information.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising accepting user-specified indexing parameters from one or more of the plurality of currently verified owners of the website.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the indexing information comprises a preferred domain name.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the indexing information comprises a crawl rate limit.

13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs for execution by one or more processors of a computer system, the one or more programs comprising: instructions for storing owners-information associated with a plurality of currently verified owners of a website; instructions for indexing one or more documents in the website in accordance with indexing information received from one or more of the plurality of currently verified owners of the website so as to produce an inverse document index; instructions for providing to a respective one of the plurality of currently verified owners at least a portion of the owners-information; and instructions for re-verifying the plurality of currently verified owners of the website in response to a request from the respective one of the plurality of currently verified owners.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein re-verifying comprises attempting to access the website for verification data associated with the plurality of currently verified owners of the website.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the verification data associated with a respective currently verified owner of the website comprises data selected from the group comprising a verification file stored in the website and a verification meta-tag stored in a document that is stored in the website.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the verification data associated with a respective currently verified owner of the website comprises data selected from the group comprising an owner-specific verification file stored in the website and an owner-specific meta-tag stored in a document that is stored in the website.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein re-verifying further comprises invalidating owner accounts for which the verification data is absent.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14 , further comprising instructions for periodically checking for existence of the verification data of the plurality of currently verified owners of the website.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16 , further comprising instructions for invalidating owner accounts for which the verification data is absent.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , further comprising instructions for providing verification data to an owner of the website for inclusion on the website, when the owner registers the website for indexing.

21. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , further comprising instructions for enabling the respective one of the plurality of currently verified owners to remove outdated verification data from the at least a portion of the owners-information.

22. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , further comprising instructions for accepting user-specified indexing parameters from one or more of the plurality of currently verified owners of the website.

23. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the indexing information comprises a preferred domain name.

24. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the indexing information comprises a crawl rate limit.

25. A system comprising: a memory; one or more processors; and one or more programs stored in the memory and executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs comprising instructions for: storing owners-information associated with a plurality of currently verified owners of a website; indexing one or more documents in the website in accordance with indexing information received from one or more of the plurality of currently verified owners of the website so as to produce an inverse document index; providing to a respective one of the plurality of currently verified owners at least a portion of the owners-information; and re-verifying the plurality of currently verified owners of the website in response to a request from the respective one of the plurality of currently verified owners.

26. The system of claim 25 , wherein the re-verifying comprises attempting to access the website for verification data associated with the plurality of currently verified owners of the website.

27. The system of claim 26 , wherein the verification data associated with a respective currently verified owner of the website comprises data selected from the group comprising a verification file stored in the website and a verification meta-tag stored in a document that is stored in the website.

28. The system of claim 26 , wherein the verification data associated with a respective currently verified owner of the website comprises data selected from the group comprising an owner-specific verification file stored in the website and an owner-specific meta-tag stored in a document that is stored in the website.

29. The system of claim 26 , wherein re-verifying further comprises invalidating owner accounts for which the verification data is absent.

30. The system of claim 26 , wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions for: periodically checking for existence of the verification data of the plurality of currently verified owners of the website.

31. The system of claim 28 , wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions for: invalidating owner accounts for which the verification data is absent.

32. The system of claim 25 , wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions for: providing verification data to an owner of the website for inclusion on the website, when the owner registers the website for indexing.

33. The system of claim 25 , wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions for: enabling the respective one of the plurality of currently verified owners to remove outdated verification data from the at least a portion of the owners-information.

34. The system of claim 25 , wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions for: accepting user-specified indexing parameters from one or more of the plurality of currently verified owners of the website.

35. The system of claim 25 , wherein the indexing information comprises a preferred domain name.

36. The system of claim 25 , wherein the indexing information comprises a crawl rate limit.